It's been a wild ride. Just in the last week, we've seen the following:

A Senator accusing the FBI Director of withholding evidence that the Republican candidate is a tool of the Russians, and accusing the FBI Director of violating the Hatch Act

The FBI Director going against Justice Department and FBI policy to notify Congress that there are new emails of interest relating to Hillary Clinton—emails he had not seen and did not yet have a warrant for

Meanwhile, the polls appear to be narrowing, as is usual in the final days of a Presidential campaign. There's a good possibility that FBI Director James Comey may have tipped the balance with his ill-timed and likely illegal letter to Congress.

And there lies what's currently troubling me. When you take all of this together, it looks very much like the security establishment is actively working to favor one side—which has come to include the white-supremacist far right—over the other.

This is troubling. It's becoming crystal-clear that facts no longer matter to a significant portion of the population—perhaps even to a majority. What matters to them is feeling good, hearing what they want to hear, believing what they want to believe, and dismissing anything that doesn't fit into their worldview, a worldview that's been formed by twenty years of lies on right-wing talk radio and a news network that makes no bones about being partisan.

If, as now seems possible, the people of this country elect Donald Trump as President next week, it will put paid to the myth of American exceptionalism, the lie that "it can't happen here."

And Americans will also find out, the hard way, what happens when you elect someone to office who does not respect the Constitution, who is quite possibly beholden to a foreign power, who appears to have no moral scruples whatsoever, and who is backed by the men with guns.